• truthfultemporarily@feddit.org
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    22 hours ago

    There is a reason it’s included though. Stuff like fmod, bink video etc. does complicated things that you otherwise need to implement yourself.

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      22 hours ago

      When the law passes, the owners of proprietary functionality will adapt their licensing to meet the requirrments or go out of business when everyone stops using them.

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        19 hours ago

        Look I get it. The planet is dying, income inequality, it seems everything is unfair and going to shit. People yearn at an opportunity to help make things better. But yelling for simple solutions is the opposite of helpful. Because there are no simple solutions.

        Saying to “just open source it” does not make sense.

        What do you do about:

        • proprietary codecs
        • proprietary software that just does not exist as open source
        • the fact you need a copy of the game engine to actually build the game from sources
        • assets that have been bought on asset stores. Do the people who make those for a living not have a right to continue to make a living?

        Making single player games without always online DRM: yes totally doable

        Running game servers of online games forever: not really doable, as soon as all the libraries etc. they depend on are unsupported they will shut down one way or another. You need staff basically forever. Not even mentioning the maintenance headache that every legacy system always turns into.

        Letting people run their own dedicated servers: sometimes doable, depends on the game though. Some games do not have “a server” but a whole infrastructure of stuff, look at foxhole. Some “servers” are a house of cards barely held together by duct tape.

        This initiative all comes down to the definition of “reasonable”. What is reasonable, actually? Running an infrastructure at a loss until bankruptcy? Or just keeping it online until it starts making a loss.

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          18 hours ago

          This has nothing to do with open source.

          Nothing.

          Open source has zero relevance.

          None whatsoever.

          Nada.

          Their licensing will change so that it doesn’t restrict keeping the game alive after servers go down or their license can’t be used to kill an otherwise functional game. That’s it.

          Games will be designed to include the ability to do private servers after the company servers go down. It will be a cost of development just like anything else they are required to do. If they don’t want to include that, then they can choose not to make an online game.